Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924), Inventor H. Grindell-Matthews of England announced a "death ray," a principle alleged to stop airplane or other engines at great heights, to ignite airplanes' wing fabric if the motor was protected by insulation. The Matthews "ray" would kill or disable infantry and its inventor said: "In the near future, machine guns will be found only in museums...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...extreme left wing of U. S. politics there were few leaders remaining-possibly only three Senators- Brookhart, Frazier and Norris. Although Senator Brookhart was apparently reelected last fall, his title to a senatorship is not yet clear (a recount will be undertaken July 20), and his prestige suffered severely from his close escape. Senator Frazier does not appear as a possible leader of his group. Senator Norris, therefore, was Mr. LaFollette's logical successor-by elimination if for no other reason. (Senator Wheeler, Mr. LaFollette's running mate last year was not generally considered a likely possibility...
Recognizing, like the Metropolitan Museum of Manhattan, the compact, grainy beauty of the homes of colonial merchants, militiamen, farmers, Indian fighters, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently began an American Wing. It has removed ten rooms from ten stout New England Houses, among them...
...money have done much for our stage, they cannot replace John Drew. Laurette Taylor's startling genius gave the breath and brilliancy of life to the name role. William Courtleigh, O. P. Heggie, Violet Heming, Ernest Lawford contented themselves with perfecting the background of small parts. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's cordial comedy of life behind the scenes of a small English playhouse never was better played. All in all a rare week. Spooks is a mystery play. Borrowing a descriptive bit from Ring Lardner, one might say that the mystery was how it came to be produced...